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...building and operating parking garages has grown so fast that the business is now dominated by big chains. When one of the biggest of the chains, Kinney Service Corp., last month was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange, the financial world saw the move as evidence that a fender-banging, slightly shady trade had finally matured into a full-fledged industry. Parking spaces now generate about $500 million in revenues throughout the U.S. each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Parking by Computer | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Farthest-out are the "show cars " Jilt by pros and toured as an inspiration to the amateur hobbyists These include "Car Craft Dream Rod," with a Volkswagen front end, a Ford engine Pontiac door and fender panels, a Studebaker top, and other parts from various foreign sports cars-all assembled in the latest custom wrinkle, called asymmetrical styling (both headlights, for instance are on the left side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Customizers | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...kind," says Pro Designer George Barris, who tours the circuit as part of a Ford team that exhibits its "dream" cars. "They're not teen-agers-they're mostly guys 20 to 30 years old-some own service stations, some are shipping clerks, some do body and fender repairs, some are hairdressers. Out in California, where I come from, a lot of the car buffs have all-chrome undercarriages At a show, they'll be underneath the car with a toothbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Customizers | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...CASUALTY LOSSES. Kennedy asked that casualty losses, now deductible in full (even the dented car fender), be allowed only to the extent that they exceed 4% of income. The committee instead decided to prohibit deduction of the first $100 of each casualty loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Long Step Toward a Tax Cut | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Ware stepped outside, was ordered to the car and told to place his hands on the front fender while the Sheriff searched his pockets. He found the penknife but returned it to Ware. Ware said Johnson then asked him, "Why have you been hiding from me all night?" When Ware replied that he had just gotten home and hadn't been hiding, the Sheriff knocked him over the left eye with the butt of his pistol leaving a deep gash that required two stitches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Odd Case Of Charlie Ware | 8/13/1963 | See Source »

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